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After Ten Years, Court Strikes Down Ruling Banning Ads Offering Help to Those Leaving Islam
American Thinker ^ | 29 Oct, 2020 | Pamela Geller

Posted on 10/29/2020 5:04:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber

It took nearly twelve years, but we did it. My organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), has just won an important victory for the freedom of speech.

Back in 2009, the Detroit area's SMART transit refused to run our AFDI ads offering help to people who were in fear for their lives for wanting to leave Islam or having left it. After an incredibly protracted court battle, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals just stood up for the First Amendment and completely reversed the judgment banning our ads. It's a total victory for freedom: we won our free speech lawsuit in Detroit by a unanimous decision.

Our ad read: "Leaving Islam? Fatwa on your head? Is your family or community threatening you? Got Questions? Get Answers! RefugefromIslam.com." That's all it said. It offered a life-saver for those who were completely and utterly alone with no system of support or help.

Islamic law mandates death for those who leave Islam; even in the United States, those who leave the religion live in fear that a devout Muslim might decide to apply this penalty.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: 6thcircuit; denisehood; denisepagehood; denisephood; edmichigan; jihad; judiciary; politicaljudiciary; rapinbilljudge; religiousjudiciary; sixthcircuit

1 posted on 10/29/2020 5:04:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Is anyone surprised that the left loves islam?


2 posted on 10/29/2020 5:04:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The Jews ran banner ads, protesting Islam, on buses many years ago. No doubt related to this issue.

Islam is a war plan. Fact.


3 posted on 10/29/2020 5:08:41 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: MtnClimber
Is anyone surprised that the left loves islam?

Everything they hate about their fictionalized version of Christianity - controlling, patriarchal, anti-science, violent, anti-women's rights, etc, etc - is turned up to eleven in Islam. If they had any internal consistency they would be fighting against Islam. But they see "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and that Islam is a useful tool for destroying society as it is. Ironically, Islam sees the American left the same way - a tool to be used for destruction and then destroyed later.

4 posted on 10/29/2020 5:14:01 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: MtnClimber

They don’t know anything about it


5 posted on 10/29/2020 5:19:43 AM PDT by stanne
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To: MtnClimber

Congratulations to Pamela Geller, a true heroine of our civilization.


6 posted on 10/29/2020 5:29:37 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: MtnClimber

The other side subscribes to the “speech is free for me, not for thee” mentality.


7 posted on 10/29/2020 5:36:54 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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To: MtnClimber

The left’s affiliation with Islam can only be of the-enemy-of-my-enemy sort. Kind of like feminists and LGBT. At some point they will be in conflict, and they know it. I wonder what they have planned for each other.


8 posted on 10/29/2020 6:01:12 AM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: Blennos

“Congratulations to Pamela Geller, a true heroine of our civilization.”

And pretty hot in her younger days! Actually, still hot for a geezer like me!


9 posted on 10/29/2020 6:02:54 AM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: MtnClimber

Pamela Geller is a heroine. She deserves all support.


10 posted on 10/29/2020 6:27:45 AM PDT by Recharged71
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To: beef
And pretty hot in her younger days! Actually, still hot for a geezer like me!

And she's completely fearless. She's been under a muslim fatwa of death for many years. They sent two murderers to behead her at one of her conferences several years ago in Garland, Texas, but the police took care of them. Has this stopped her? No. Fearless.

11 posted on 10/29/2020 6:34:43 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: MtnClimber

Perhaps they’ll “allow” homos to leave homoism with counseling, now.


12 posted on 10/29/2020 7:43:00 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I)
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13 posted on 10/29/2020 8:26:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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